The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-25
TIE LINCOLN CLUE.

Tho Secretary Climb. ono or More Demo.
crnttc Frames aud Has Fun with 'enf.
10 ht Editor Of The hie!lfgeaeer.
sIa:--plcaas allow mo to answer some
misstatementB In the Register concerning
tho Lincoln Club.
"Pro Bono Public" in q card headed
"Tho Board Of Public Works." which was
published In last Mondays Register, gays,
"most Of our people are doubtleGs awaro
TINT tho Council has surrendered It's lcgin-
latiye functions to that club" Il. c. the
Lincoln Club
And ho then proceeded 10 terate tho
appointment OF ]. NJ. Warden as superin-
tondcnt Of st,cetn and OF Capt. VIM. Otto
and G. II. Oroert 90 members OF tho Board
Of Public Works. who. no Gays, "attend
the Lincoln Club" and he plainly means
tina. the Lincoln Club is responsible for
those appointments.
Whoever IL responsible for those ap-
pointmcnss can well BIO proud OF them, but
certain II 10 that tho Lincoln Club was in
no way instrumental in securing them.
The Lincoln Club Is prohibited by It's
conatitution from manipulating appoint.
meuta and not one Of the persons named
(Messls. Warden, Otto and Odbert) be-
long to the Lincoln Club. Tho card also
p.etes that Meesrs. Elson and Lancaster
will got together $1,000 $4,000 each) /;
therefore 1.-THE Lincoln Club extracts 500
from tho city treasury" Mr.. Elson Is not
member OF tho Lincoln Club and gets
lust what Mr.. Galliyan received for the
Same work, viz. $1,000, and tho salary OF
Mr.. Lancaster has been fixed by tho Board
at 81 900 Instead Of the 5000 that Mr.. Gal
ligan received, because the former will do.
vote hiu whole time to the work. But
Council, which the card charges with be.
ing controlled by tho Lincoln Club, has
rejected the appointment Of Mr.. Lancss.
ter, who 10 Il member OF the club, solely
because OF the increase in the salary.
Tho card after utating that tho Republic
cgu members OF tho Board OF Public
Works arc strong radicals and attend tho
Lincoln Club, proceeds: "As the Club is
to boss the city Tor tho next two yesrs,
perhaps these are the only qualifications
deemed necessary under its swallow tsil
and kid glove rule"
TO the Same effect ID tho language OF the
Charleston correspondent OF tho Register,
who, in bis letter published on tho l4.h
inst; speaks Of tho political heelers and
spoilsmen Of the Lincoln Club" and says
II heard prominent Democrat who re.
Gently arrived hero say that our City
Council was nothing more nor less than
an annex Of the Lincoln Club"
Does the Lincoln Club in any way
interfere with or influence any action Of
Council? Tho management OF the Lincoln
Club 10 entirely in charge OF It's Board OF
Directors and that Board has not had q
meeting eince last December.
uEqualiiisdly assert thai the Lincoln
Club, ito officers, agents and employees,
have taken no action Of any kind since
December. except that the Room Com
mittee lnd janitor have taken care Ct the
rooma and the secretary has collected
some dueu and paid some bills. .l,5..
OF tho twcn.y.iouf Republican members
Of Council only five are nembar5 OF the
Lincoln Club, viz. T. N. Garvip, p. B.
DobbinB, W. II. Haller, Geo. B. Caldwell
and B. s. Allison. .I.g
Is tho Lincoln Club swallo1.tsil coat
and kid glove affair? The club has NO
uniform Of any kind, not even badge,
wheroas the Young Mems Democratic
Club psradsu Nth plug hats and white
| gloves, and has sumptuous blnquets. To
make tho swsllow-tais coat and kid glove
ides harmouizs with that of political
heelec," one must associate with then, a
big diamond breast pin, g plug hat and a
cigar pointing upward IRON loering
mouth.
II "P.o Bono Publico" will look in Mt q
meeting Of the Board Of Directors OF the
Lincoln Club he will probably see there
MeHsrs. @. D. Hubbard, Benjamin Finher,
| Geo. 3. Caldwell, Vim. A. lectt, Edward
Rogers, r. B. Dobbins. James D. Bodley,
| jr., Victor Rosenberg, John Zorn, Joseph
Speidel, P. NJ. Rhodes, W. I. Mcclure,
James French, and possibly two or three
others. And these are the gentlemen who
are call political hselers" and whose
management is termed "swallow-tail and
kid glove rule"
But what has Lincoln Club done7 It
has furnished e headquarters for the Re-
publicars Of this city. The members OF
Iall committees appointed at every Repub-
licsn convention and tho Republican
members Of Council have been made vel.
como to use tho club rooms for political
work. 1t is the centre where Systematic
political work 10 planned. It is the nucle-
US for good Republican organization in
this county at the beginning Of each cam
paign. And it ia an effective agency in
aiding the Republican cause.
Every Republican who visits the club
rooma knows that 1t is pleasant place to
60 and that he will not be annoyed there
with appeala for money such as are COM
mon ut political meetings, because ouch
appeals in the club room arc prohibited
by the constitution Of the club. 8
II seems to me that the Republicans do
not properly appreciate the Lincoln Club
and that it ought to have many more
members than 1t has. a5s.5,
SECRETARY OF LINCOLN CLUB,
Wheeling, Feb. %.